Friday, 24 January 2014

HOW TO LIV ~ RELEASE DAY!!!




Title:  
How to Liv
Author:  Megan Keith
Genre:  Adult Contemporary Romance
Cover Design:  Cover to Cover Designs





Synopsis
A chance encounter can change everything.
Olivia Moore is your average hard working, down to earth, Aussie chick.
Taking each day as it comes, working in a factory, Olivia is just plodding along through life. She’s resigned herself to the fact she’s not going to get her happily ever after, a husband… kids… because she has given up on men - they lie and cheat, leaving a world of pain in their wake.
Then Olivia meets Joel.
Joel Turner is hard working, down to earth, sexy, kind, fun… in fact, he’s damn near perfect. Joel is exactly the type of man Olivia has always wanted. He stirs emotions in her that have laid dormant for years. He breaks down her walls, forcing Olivia to fall in love and to finally believe fairy tales really can come true.
Until she discovers something that could change it all.
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Thursday, 23 January 2014

Saturday, 18 January 2014

COVER REVEAL ~ HOW TO LIV


I'm so excited to show you this beautiful cover designed by Kari at Cover to Cover Designs!
Is it weird to say I am in love with it?  Because I am, I really am!









 Genre:  Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date:  January 24, 2014




Synopsis

A chance encounter can change everything.
Olivia Moore is your average hard working, down to earth, Aussie chick.
Taking each day as it comes, working in a factory, Olivia is just plodding along through life. She’s resigned herself to the fact she’s not going to get her happily ever after, a husband… kids… because she has given up on men - they lie and cheat, leaving a world of pain in their wake.
Then Olivia meets Joel.
Joel Turner is hard working, down to earth, sexy, kind, fun… in fact, he’s damn near perfect. Joel is exactly the type of man Olivia has always wanted. He stirs emotions in her that have laid dormant for years. He breaks down her walls, forcing Olivia to fall in love and to finally believe fairy tales really can come true.
Until she discovers something that could change it all.


 
                                        






Monday, 13 January 2014

How to Liv Playlist


I'm very excited! It won't be long until How to Liv is published! I am in the final stages of editing and hope to have a cover to reveal to you all very soon. In the meantime, I want to share the playlist with you.

If you have read any of my books you will know that I always include music. Music is really important to me. It's a constant inspiration. You can tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Why should book characters be any different?

How to Liv is Joel and Olivia's story.  The music I've included was influenced by who they are and what they like. Some songs are included in the book and others just embody the spirit of them and their family and friends. Enjoy!


1.       Lanterns - Birds of Tokyo
2.       Miracle Cure - Something for Kate
3.        1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
4.       Charlie Brown - Coldplay
5.       Zombie - The Cranberries
6.        Penguins & Polarbears - Millencolin
7.       November Rain - Guns N Roses
8.        Take a Picture - Filter
9.        Brother - Matt Corby
10.     Ghosts of the Past - Eskimo Joe
11.     Heartbeats - José González
12.     Friday I’m in Love - The Cure
13.     Lightning Crashes - Live
14.     Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
15.     Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins
16.      Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay
17.     Hurts Like Heaven - Coldplay
18.     Motorcycle Drive By - Third Eye Blind
19.      Stay Young - INXS
20.     Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
21.     Hot Chilli Woman - Noiseworks
22.     Starlight - Muse
23.     My Obsession - Icehouse
24.     If I Could - 1927
25.     Linger - The Cranberries
26.      Draw Your Swords - Angus & Julia Stone
27.     Between the Raindrops - Lifehouse
28.     Wherever You Will Go - Charlene Soraia
29.      I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers






How to Liv
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Wednesday, 8 January 2014

RELEASE DAY ~ Come to Me Quietly by A.L. Jackson





Come to Me Quietly by A.L. Jackson


From the acclaimed bestselling author of Lost to You and When We Collide comes a new adult novel of one woman’s obsession: a man who’s as passionate as he is elusive—and as tempting as he is trouble.…

Aleena Moore is haunted by Jared Holt. It’s been six years since she’s seen her brother’s best friend, the self-destructive bad boy she secretly loved in high school. As the years pass, she knows it’s time to move on. Time to decide between a practical nursing degree and her true dream as an artist. Time to get over Jared and give another guy a chance…

Just when she opens her heart to her friend Gabe, Aly returns home to find Jared sleeping on her couch. The teenage boy she loved has grown into a man she can’t resist. Covered in tattoos and lost in rage, he’s begging to be saved from his demons—the memories of the day he destroyed his family. As the two reconnect, their passion is hot enough to torch Aly’s judgment. But can she risk her future for a man who lives on the edge of destruction?

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Jared

What the hell was I doing?

Everything about this situation was wrong. Aly kneeling in front of me. Touching me. She was close, too close. I could taste her breath, and I kept catching hints of that fucking delicious coconut body wash I’d used last night. Somehow it smelled a thousand times better on her.

These urges constantly hit me, and I couldn’t help imagining what it’d be like to bury my nose in the haven behind her ear, to press my mouth at her jaw, to tangle my hands in her hair. Against my better judgment, which could so easily be called into question, anyway, I gave in. Took a little.

I was always so good at taking.

The strand of hair I tugged between my fingers was soft, like silk against my callused skin. The action should’ve been innocent enough. I remembered doing it often when we were children, just a small act of affection to let her know it was okay she was there. There was never anything more to it than that.

But I knew better now, knew it would stir the need I’d felt in the pit of my stomach since I found her backed against that wall last night, since she’d driven me half-mad in her kitchen this morning, since I’d stumbled into her apartment like the piece of trash I was tonight. Somehow she still found me worthy, kneeling in front of me as if I deserved even a scrap of the attention she gave me now.

With her head down, she attended to the wounds on my other hand. I allowed my gaze to fall, to trace the face I wanted to trace with my hands.

I didn’t think I’d ever felt intrigued by a girl before the way I was now, had never wanted to crawl inside someone’s mind to dig through her thoughts, to find out who she was. Why she was. Aly’s green eyes were both fierce and soft, her touch both intent and gentle. She was kind, yet she didn’t hesitate to call me out on my shit. She made me itch and squirm, made me want to run and want to stay.

She began taping up my second hand, forging this little truce between us, steadily sucking me deeper into a place I knew I shouldn’t go.

But I couldn’t stop it.

There was something about being alone with her in the seclusion of this apartment that I liked, like maybe we were sharing some kind of secret that no one else could touch.

A distorted sense of security.

For just a little while, I wanted to drift in the delusion.

I watched her as she worked. Every couple of seconds, she glanced up at me with those eyes that seemed to know more than they should.

Aly shifted closer. I attempted to scoot back without her noticing, but she tugged on my hand. “Would you hold still? You’re worse than a two-year-old,” she said.

Was she oblivious of what she was doing to me? Every time she moved, her chest brushed against my knees, and damn, if it wasn’t the greatest temptation I’d ever had to endure. Did she know how badly I wanted to touch her? To take a little more? Maybe take it all? My thoughts raced ahead, and I wondered what she’d do if I edged off the couch and laid her back on the floor. Would she stop me? Or would she allow me to feed off her compassion and goodness? Would she let me wreck her? Destroy her? Because that was the only thing I knew how to do.

I sucked in a breath and held it. No fucking way was I going there. Not with her, even if she was the only girl who’d ever made me feel like I had to have her. The first who’d ever made me want. That in itself was a pretty damned good reason to stay away from her.

That and the fact that she was Aly.

My Aly.

She sat back on her haunches. Her smile was soft when she looked up at me. “See? That wasn’t so bad, was it?”

“Thank you,” I said honestly, because it’d been a long time since anyone had taken care of me. It hurt to think of the last time someone had.

“You’re welcome.” Her voice was quiet, and she sat there, just staring at me, a lot like we had last night, although now things seemed completely different.

“You’d better get some rest. It’s really late,” I said. I’d lain flat out on the hard ground for hours while I let myself sober up to the point where I could at least get myself back to the apartment, and I hadn’t come crawling up the stairs until three in the morning.

“Yeah, you’d better, too.” She sounded a little disappointed.

Her delicate hands pressed into the couch on the outside of my legs as she helped herself to stand. This time her hair did brush against my chest. We both froze with the contact, and she looked down at me, her face three inches from mine. She hovered there, her eyes searching.

Motherfucking trigger.

I wet my lips and found my voice, although it was heavy with strain. “Please go to your room, Aly.”

Blinking, she nodded before she pushed herself the rest of the way up. She paused at her door, whispered, “Good night,” and then disappeared inside her bedroom.

© 2014, A.L. Jackson, all rights reserved


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